How to Hug a Coelacanth...

For those of you who missed it, some pretty amazing Roti was served at Big Al's in Coquitlam on Saturday September 8.

Oh yeah, and Charles Delbeek presented on rare and newly discovered livestock for the greater part of the hour... whoever he is :P

Some discussion about cuttlefish (evidently all the craze in Vancouver these days, since 60% of the audience had one, if not two. ), husbandry of nautilus' (strange strange strange!). If you were a seahorse fan, you would have loved his section on Seadragons, leafy and weedy (Love the leafy, personally!) and his tiny gorgonian dwelling Seahorses. Did you know it takes two to tango even in the Syngnathidae family? After a string of failures to naturally gestate, biologists will place the fallen eggs onto the sticky patch of the male to help the process. Evidently the seafillies are always ready to go, but the seastallions need to work on their technique ;)

If my memory serves me right, the Waikiki Aquarium was one of the first to successfully hatch a Nautilus.


Nautilus belauensis

We also learned how to hug a Coelacanth, the intricacies of fish porn (mating of rare and new species), and the effort it takes to discover a new breed of fish.

Two Oceanic Nanos were given away that night and yours truly managed to score one. Sooo delighted. Love my lucky streak!

Thanks to Grant and his team for hosting such a fun night. Word is he'll be hosting these events monthly, so I'll keep you posted.

- Ivy